It’s been over a YEAR since I last did a State of the Writer. (One year and one week. Which means it’s been one year and one week since my husband’s car accident. Wow. Time flies.)

So, without further ado, let’s see what I did this past year. This is the old list.

To Write:

Sapphires and Gold

From Dusk ’til Dawn

The Willow Sword

Sea Prince (To be written with Danielle Jones)

Tales from the Arena

Wanderer’s Moon (next book in the Midnight Moon series. Not to be done until we sell Nomad’s Moon)

To Outline

The Navigator (Steam and Screw, Book 1)

The Captain (Steam and Screw, Book 2)

Coral Throne (sequel to Sea Prince)

Hidden Things (Mystere Book 1)

The Lady and the Sword (Mystere Book 2)

Ashes and Light (Mystere Book 3)

Tablets of Stone (Mystere Book 4)

Rainbow Wars (the teach-in idea. Definitely a YA. And it needs a better title)

Holy Orders ( Sequel to Heart’s Master)

Temple of the Mysteries (maybe a shared world thing)

To Sell

Nomad’s Moon

Exile’s Moon

Heart’s Master

Kidnapped by Pirates

Holy Palmer’s Kiss

Not bad. On the to Write list, I wrote three and sold two of those (I’m counting the self-pub as a sale. I’m making money on it.) On the sale list, I only sold one. And on the outline list…. ummm… yeah. That hasn’t changed at all. Except that I added one. (That one being The School. And that one I finished the outline of last night.)

So, plans for the rest of the year? I’ve just started back into The Sea Prince. I’ve talked to Danielle, and we’ve decided that it’s not going to be mainstream. I’m going with what I know — erotic romance. So I’m putting the sex scenes I cut out back in. Might have been nice if I’d kept those drafts, I suppose. But I lost a revision somewhere, including a really good scene that I’m annoyed that I can’t find. I can recreate that scene, too. I’m hoping to have this done by the end of the year, but that is me being, I think, insane. Maybe the end of 1st quarter 2014.

From there, we’ll see what happens. So here’s my updated to-dos.

To Write:

The Willow Sword

Sea Prince (To be written with Danielle Jones)

The School

Berlin (A Sable Locks short story)

To Outline

The White Raven (Yes, a sequel to Princes of Air)

The Navigator (Steam and Screw, Book 1)

The Captain (Steam and Screw, Book 2)

Coral Throne (sequel to Sea Prince)

Hidden Things (Mystere Book 1)

The Lady and the Sword (Mystere Book 2)

Ashes and Light (Mystere Book 3)

Tablets of Stone (Mystere Book 4)

Rainbow Wars (the teach-in idea. Definitely a YA. And it needs a better title)

I finally finished redoing all the formatting that I somehow managed to strip out when I was getting the file ready. So here is book two of Tales from the Arena, now live on Smashwords and All Romance books. Amazon will be along presently.

Discovered that converting the files to Smashwords format stripped some of the formatting, and I didn’t notice. Just uploaded the corrected file for Opening Gambit, and am reading through Playing for Keeps to fix things there. If you bought a copy of Opening Gambit (I know someone did!), please go and get the updated copy?

Smashwords JUST went live, and should be propagating down to other venues soon. Amazon will be up later. And I’ll see about an actual paper version, too. Since, you know, I can.

The Ishkarin were created to be the perfect soldiers. The perfect predators. The perfect sadists. But what happens to the perfect soldiers when the war they were created to fight is over? In the Arena, the Ishkarin find an outlet for their natural instincts. Populated by the Collared, the sexual submissives who live to kneel before the predators, the Arena guarantees that the Ishkarin will not prey on the people they have sworn to protect.

On the eve of his appointment as second-in-command to the Ishkarin forces, Gavir is gifted with a night with Iras, the so-called Queen of the Arena. One wild night of passion and pain later, Gavir is enthralled by the woman who wears the red Collar. But when his fascination reveals a secret long buried, how far will Gavir go to protect the woman who has captured his heart?

The Ishkarin were created to fight for Tyese. They are the perfect predators, the perfect soldiers, the perfect sadists. But what happens when the war is over? In the Arena, the Ishkarin find an outlet to their natural instincts. Populated by the Collared, the sexual submissives who live to kneel before the predators, the Arena guarantees that the Ishkarin will not turn on the people they are sworn to protect.

On the eve of his appointment as second-in-command to the Ishkarin forces, Gavir is gifted with a night with Iras, the so-called Queen of the Arena. One wild night of passion and pain later, Gavir is enthralled by the woman who wears the red Collar. But when his fascination reveals a secret long buried, how far will Gavir go to protect the woman who has captured his heart?

If I got the formatting done properly, I’ll get them uploaded tomorrow. If I haven’t done the formatting properly, then we’re looking at Monday or so. The Smashwords guide to formatting an ebook is very good… if you’re using Word.

I’m not using Word. I think that may very well be something I splurge on next year, though. Between not being able to do rtf format in Libreoffice without losing all formatting when I hit ‘save’, and now not being sure if I’ve done this right… yeah, might be worth it.

So… tune in here for more information, which I’ll be posting as I figure out what I’m doing it becomes available!